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CBI has already informed a special court and will now seek abatement of the trial | Photo Credit: PTI The CBI has learnt that self-styled preacher Virender Deo Dixit, who was wanted in cases of alleged rape and mistreatment of his disciples at his Rohini ashram, had died in 2023, officials said.The agency has already informed a special court and will now seek abatement of the trial, they said.Dixit, against whom an Interpol Blue Notice was issued in 2018, was allegedly on the run after the CBI registered cases against him on the orders of the Delhi High Court in…

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out a new plan to end the war in Gaza. AILSA CHANG, HOST: The second anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel is drawing closer. And today, President Trump rolled out a new plan that he said would end the conflict that has devastated Gaza since then. He was joined by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said that he agreed to it, at least for now. The plan calls for a quick end to the fighting, the return of all hostages and a new governance structure for Gaza…

Tata Sons-backed non-banking financial company (NBFC), Tata Capital Ltd, has set a price band of Rs 310 to Rs 326 per equity share for its over Rs 15,000 crore initial public offering (IPO). This primary offering is the largest IPO from the Tata Group to date, and is the largest-ever in the non-banking finance companies (NBFC) segment in the country.The ‘upper layer’ NBFC’s IPO consists of a combination of fresh issuance and an offer for sale (OFS), amounting to approximately 47.58 crore equity shares of face value of Rs 10 each. The issue will open for subscription on October 6…

(Clockwise from left) Behind the scenes image of The Sisters of the Brave Beaver convent sequences from Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’, the women of the real-life Sisters of the Valley based in Merced, California | Photo Credit: Instagram/ @sistersofthevalley, X/ @sistersofcbd Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, One Battle After Another, may be a combustible political thriller on the surface, but tucked inside its brilliant chaos is one of the most oddly grounded details in his career: a convent of pot-growing rebel nuns. Called the Sisters of the Brave Beaver, they appear as an enclave of women who’ve…

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The modern Internet is built on vast computing backbones that a very small number of companies control. Among them, Microsoft has become indispensable to governments worldwide. But when its infrastructure was used to deepen Israel’s repression of Palestinians, the episode raised difficult questions about how export regimes can govern services they may never have imagined when those rules were drafted. Export regimes are international agreements between supplier countries to control the export of sensitive goods and technologies to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Wassenaar ArrangementA particularly important instrument is the Wassenaar Arrangement, a multilateral “export control…

Less than two hours from New York City, the Hudson Valley has long been an easy escape for city dwellers—and you don’t even need a car, with Metro-North and Amtrak trains tracing the river north. Across its nearly 150-mile stretch, the region is studded with small towns that mix history, culture, and natural beauty in ways that feel distinctly their own. But the Hudson Valley is bigger and more varied than many realize, and exactly what counts as the Hudson Valley depends on who you ask. Using the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area’s definition (also adopted by I Love…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Qatar not to strike again even as Qatari leader Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani welcomes the assurances, the White House said on Monday. US President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrives at the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC on September 29. (AFP) The announcement comes soon after the Israeli leader extended a formal apology to his Qatari counterpart for a recent military strike targeting Hamas officials in Doha. Netanyahu made the call to his Qatari counterpart as he met with Trump. Also…

The Trump administration will use a government shutdown to gut the Democratic Party’s favorite federal agencies.Or at least, this is what the president wants Democrats to believe, as they negotiate over a bill to prevent federal funding from lapsing on October 1.Last week, White House budget director Russell Vought instructed federal agencies to consider mass firings, in the event of a shutdown. Vought specified that such downsizing should be confined to departments that President Donald Trump does not care much about: Agencies vital to the president’s agenda — such as Homeland Security and Defense — should be spared.This led the…

Paul Finebaum, ESPN SEC Network anchor and commentator, stated that he is “considering” quitting the Worldwide Leader to run for the US Senate on the Republican ticket after conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killing. Paul Finebaum This development comes as Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama would run for governor, leaving his seat available. Paul Finebaum and Charlie Kirk connectionThe 70-year-old Finebaum recently told Clay Travis of OutKick that “one or two people in Washington had reached out” to see whether he was interested in politics, and that Kirk’s murder stoked a desire for him to get engaged. Speaking about Kirk, Finebaum…